Youtube – How to a URL be linked to a text in a YouTube comment

I am unsure what changed, but I suspect YouTube changed their URLs so you can not get a video without matching cookies. This prevents 3rd party sites from showing you ads and giving you download links.

I can tell you this link (pasted at the very bottom), which I got from your video, WORKS for me. However if I paste it in my other instance of Firefox (which has different cookies for the site) this link does NOT work.

I suggest using a userscript. I like YouTube Enhancer.

If you need to do this in code I do see the link(s?) in var swfConfig =

http://v12.lscache4.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?ip=0.0.0.0&sparams=id%2Cexpire%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Calgorithm%2Cburst%2Cfactor%2Coc%3AU0dXRVFRTl9FSkNNN19JS1JB&fexp=903205%2C906501&algorithm=throttle-factor&itag=34&ipbits=0&burst=40&sver=3&expire=1280160000&key=yt1&signature=2F2BB59B9BA3E6AB62CEE47F597D7A4D96002893.03196019F468211FAA4E492F7F5B1951951AEAF9&factor=1.25&id=0d85b9d05e36b2cf&title=Tom%20Lehrer%20CHEMISTRY%20element%20song

to make it easy for me to read I did a full escape using this handy script.

http://v12.lscache4.c.youtube.com/videoplayback?ip=0.0.0.0&sparams=id,expire,ip,ipbits,itag,algorithm,burst,factor,oc:U0dXRVFRTl9FSkNNN19JS1JB&fexp=903205,906501&algorithm=throttle-factor&itag=34&ipbits=0&burst=40&sver=3&expire=1280160000&key=yt1&signature=2F2BB59B9BA3E6AB62CEE47F597D7A4D96002893.03196019F468211FAA4E492F7F5B1951951AEAF9&factor=1.25&id=0d85b9d05e36b2cf&title=Tom Lehrer CHEMISTRY element song

So this is what worked for me, after signin:

1. Load the video, put a place holder description in.

2. Click your username in the top right corner, then click "Video Manager" is the list below.

3. Find the video you'd like to add deeplinks to within the video's description.

4. Under that video, click "Edit Info"

5. Use the format "Text 00:00" - which is the same as the comments format and only support minutes and seconds, not hours, half-seconds, etc.

Note: It possible this works when loading the video, but already had the video loaded, and on other forums it said that didn't work anyway, so I didn't even bother to test it.

If it matters, the real format I used was "Text (00:00)" - which to me was easy to read and understand, especially after the time becomes hyperlinked and blue.